Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-25

discipline OF thsir early clerkship. You
can afford to endure the wilderness march,
if il is going to end in the vineyards and
orchards OF the promised land. But you
say: 'Will the womanly clerks in onI
stores have promOtiOn?" Yes. Time Is
coming when
WOMEN WILL BE AS WELL PAID
for their toll in mercantile circles as men
are now paid for their toll. Time is COM
ing when a woman will be allowed TO do
anything she can do we'll. 1t is only a
little while ago when women knew moth
ing of telegraphy, and they were kept
out Of great many commercial circles
where they are now welcome; and the
time will 90 on until the woman who at
one counter in q store sells ten thousand
dollars worth of goods in year, will get
as high salary as the man who at the
other counter Of the same store sells ten
thousand dollars worth of goods. All
honor to Lydia, the Christian sales
woman. And in passing, l may as well
say that You merchants who have female
clerks in your stores ought to treat them
with great courtesy and kindness. When
they are not positively engaged, let them
sit down. In England, and the United
States, physicians have protested against
the habit of compelling the wOmanly
clerks in the stores to stand when it was
not necessary for them to stand. There
fore, add TO the protest of physicians the
protest of the Christian Church, and in
the name of good health, and that God
who has made the wOmanly constitution
more delicate than the mans, / demand
that you let her sit down.
The second counsel have to give to the
clerks who are here to-day is that you seek
ont what are.
| THE LAWFUL REGULATIONS
of your establishment and then submit to
them. Every well ordered house has its
usages. In military life, on ships deck,
in commercial life, there must be order
and discipline. Those people who do not
learn TO obey, will never know how to
command. / will tell you what young
man will reach ruin, financial and moral;
it is the young man who thrustS his
thumb into his vest and says. Nobody
shall dictate to me, / am my own master;
will not submit to the regulations of this
house" Between an establishment in
which all the employees are under thorough
discipline and the establishment in which
the employees do about as they choose, is
the difference between success and failure
-betweeH rapid accumulation and utter
bankruptcy. Do not come to the store
ten minutes after the time. Be there
within two seconds after. Do not think
anything too Insignificant to do well. Do
not say: cts only just once" From
the most important transaction in
commerce down to the particular
style in which you tie string
around q bundle, obey orders. Do
not be easily disgusted. While Others in
the store may lounge, or fret, or complain,
you 90 with ready hands and cheerful face
and contented spirit to your work. When
the bugle sounds the good soldier asks no
question, but shoulders his knapSack, fills
his canteen and listens for the command
of March, Do not get the idea that
your interests and those Of your employer
are antagOniStiC. His success will be your
honor. His embarrassment will be your
dismay Expose none of the frailties of
the firm. Tell no store secrets. Do not
blab. Rebuff those persons who come tS
find out from clerks what ought never be
known outside the store. Do not be among
| those young men who take On.a mysteri-
Gus air when something is said against the
firm that employs them, as much as to say:
II could tell you some things, but |
won't" Do not be among those who i'm
agine they can build themselves up by
pulling somebody else down. Be not
ashamed to be a subalterh.
Again: counsel clerks in this house TO
search out what are
THE UNLAWFUL AND DISHONEST DE-
MANDS
Of an establishment, and resist them. In
the six thousand years that have passed,
there has never been an occasion when il
was ones duty to sin against God. 1t is
never right to do wrong. II the head men
OF the firm expect of you dishonesty, dis
appoint them. "O," you say, ~ should
! lose my place then" Better lose your
place than lose your soul. But you will
not lose yOu place. Christian heroism Is
always hOnOred. You go to the head man
of your store, and say: ''Sir, want to
serve you; want to oblige you; it is from
no lack of industry on my part, but this
thing seems to me to be wrong, and 1t IS
sin against my conscience, it is Il sin against
God. and l beg you, sir, to excuse me-"
He may flush up and swear, but he will
cool down, and he will have more admira-
ton for you than for those who submit to
his evil dictation; and while they sink,
you will rise. Do not, because Of seeming
temporary advantage, give up your charac-
ter, young man. Under God, that is the
only thing you have to build on. Give
up that, you give up everything. That
employer asks young man to hurt him
self for time and for eternity, who expects
him to make wrong entry, or change an
invoice, or say goods cost so much when
they cost less; or impose upon the ver-
dancy Of customer, or miSrepresent a
sale of fabric. How dare he demand of
you anything so wicked?
There is
ONE STYLE OF TEMPTATION
that comes on great many of our clerks,
and that is upon those who are engaged in
what is called "drutnning." Now, that
occupation is just rs honorable as any
other, if it be conducted in accord with
ones conscience. In this day, when there
are 80 many rivalries in business, all our